The Smashing Pumpkins 2015-06-19

June 19, 2015 – Tulsa, OK, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
In Plainsong tour
Date	June 19, 2015
Venue	Brady Theater
Coordinates	36°9′29″N 95°59′43″W
Location	Tulsa, OK, US
Venue type	Theater
Capacity	2,800
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder, Katie Cole
Order of bands	YB, Katie Cole, The Smashing Pumpkins
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In Plainsong: An Acoustic-Electro Evening.

Setlist

Pre-set

Set

Encore one

"Spaceboy"
"El-A-Noy"

Encore two

"Cardinal Rule"

Notes

backing drumtracks, Katie Cole support on backup vocals and bass
First full performance of "Beautiful" since 1996-11-19 (also the song's final performance)
"Blissed and Gone" with Billy on ukulele
"Stand Inside Your Love" as duet with Katie Cole
"Fotheringay" was on the setlist as the first song of the second encore but not played

Banter

(Due to no known complete source existing for this show, some banter may be missing beyond what's noted below)

Tonight, Tonight (Billy solo piano)
99 Floors (Billy solo acoustic)
Today (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: Thank you very kindly, thank you. Now I know that in this part of the world, you’re used to the rough and tumble. One need only throw a rock in Tulsa to find a bar. Which tells me that you like to have a good time. But I must warn you that this show is not for the faint of heart, it’s about two and a half hours long. If I feel like playing. One does not acquire a bad reputation on accident. Love is not the same as acceptance. But this is - this is for you.
My Poor Troubled Heart (Billy solo acoustic)
Dorian (Billy solo acoustic)
For Your Love
BC: Now...as our guests this evening, we have some military here tonight.
Guy in crowd: [unintelligible!]
BC: Thank you. So I’d like to dedicate this song to them, it’s called Drum and Fife.
Drum + Fife
A Stitch in Time
Mayonaise
Prairie Song
BC: [tape cut] As I - as I like to say, I’m glad you like it now. I wrote about um, probably about 35 or so songs for the Adore album. And so this is a small selection of some of those songs in the way - in many ways, in the way that they were written so you get a sense of the original emotional intent of the album. Before, you know, the record company got nervous and the managers got nervous and...yes.
Guy in crowd: Billy, we didn’t know you’re a giant!
BC: Heh heh. Anyway. So this song, not to change the tenor of the moment, but this song is a strange inspiration. As some of you know, I went through a lot of loss: my mother passed away, I got a divorce, Jimmy had left the band, Jonathan had died. A very strange period and a lot of sadness coming out of an album called Sadness, so um, it’s my fault, I suppose. And um, it was one of those strange things that only happens - well, it seems to only happen in America - where a young man had killed another young man, a younger boy, and he had said that uh, when they asked him why he did it, he said, “Well, I was listening to Smashing Pumpkins and the music told me to do it.” And that um...(crowd boos)...heh heh heh, yes, boo. Heh heh heh. (crowd yelling) Heh heh heh heh. Anyway. So, my first reaction was “Well, I’m a songwriter, I’ll write a song,” but then I thought, “Well, this really doesn’t do the young man justice that was murdered.” It seemed to trivialize something about the event as if I was, you know, flipping through a newspaper and it just happened to be me that was in the headline. But yet, about four weeks later, six weeks later, I suddenly was writing this song, which is called Jersey Shore, and in the middle of writing the song, I realized that I was writing about this young man, not from the standpoint of what had happened, but more from the standpoint of what his life might have been like.
Jersey Shore
Sparrow
Perfect
To Sheila (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> Behold! The Night Mare (with Katie Cole on bass & vocals, Billy plays piano)
> For Martha (Billy plays piano)
Blissed and Gone (Billy solo ukulele)
Ava Adore
Now and Then
The Crying Tree of Mercury
1979 (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Run2Me (with Katie Cole on vocals)
BC: Alright, alright, alright.
Pinwheels (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Stand Inside Your Love (with Katie Cole on vocals)
Landslide (with Katie Cole on vocals)
A New Poetry (Billy plays piano, switches to bass after lyrics)
BC: Thank you very much.
[encore break, drum machine continues playing]
BC: I’m like to tell you that I’m not worthy, but I am...just not tonight, heh heh. Anyway...thank you so much for coming.
Spaceboy (Billy solo acoustic)
El-A-Noy
[encore break]
Cardinal Rule (Billy solo acoustic)
BC: God bless you all, thank you so much, thank you, you guys are awesome.

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